Analysis of Searching
Andy Lyle 1951 (Londonderry)
I just want to thank you
For the way you understand
And the way that you have touched me
Though you never held my hand
I can see a bright light shining
Through the darkness of my life
Even though I have been cut
By a sharp unkindly wife
There are days and they're a plenty
When I do not want to rise
To see the sun there shining bright
Nor the blueness of the sky
To suffer happy people
Is difficult for me
Cos yesterday I was one
Now I am so empty
The sound of laughter left me
Hope its not gone for good
As maybe one day I will meet
Someone that I should
Be happy with to spend my days
And through my nights as well
To rescue me from this darkness
That I call my living hell
I think that you have been there
And maybe you still are
Walking through the graveyard
To a place that is so far
Away it takes a long time
To reach its happy gate
I hope that we can get there
Before it is too late
Scheme | XABAXCXC BXXXXBXB BDXDXEXE FGXGXHFH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 101101 00111111 1110111 11101110 1010111 1011111 10111 11101010 1111111 11011101 1010101 1101010 110011 110111 111110 0111011 111111 11011111 1111 11011111 011111 11011110 1111101 1111111 010111 10101 1011111 0111011 111101 1111111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 859 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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